Editor’s Choice Editor’s Comment Phase-contrast MR imaging was performed in 21 patients with probable idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus. Patients were selected for shunting on the basis of pathologically increased intracranial pressure pulsatility. Patients with shunts were offered a second MR
Fellows’ Journal Club Editor’s Comment Noninvasive vascular imaging, such as transcranial Doppler sonography and MR angiography, has played an increasingly important role is diagnosing this condition, though conventional angiography remains the reference standard for the evaluation of cerebral artery vasoconstriction.
Editor’s Choice Editor’s Comment The authors evaluated and validated a semiautomated software platform to facilitate detection of new lesions and improved MS lesions. Two neuroradiologists retrospectively assessed 161 MR imaging comparison study pairs acquired between 2009 and 2011. More comparison
Fritsch MJ, Kehler U, Meier U. Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. 1st ed. Thieme; 2014; 204 pp; 435 ill; $149.99 As a reversible and underdiagnosed brain disorder, normal pressure hydrocephalous (NPH) deserves greater awareness and recognition among the various medical disciplines that care
Editor’s Choice Editor’s Comment The authors evaluated 62 consecutive patients with ischemic stroke with proven vessel occlusion with MRI before and within 24 hours of treatment and defined a hypoperfusion intensity ratio (volume with severe/mild hypoperfusion [time-to-maximum ≥ 8 seconds
Fellows’ Journal Club Editor’s Comments Ninety-one patients were scanned by MR at 0–3 hours from stroke onset, and 70 patients within 3–6 hours. Collateral status, but not time from stroke onset to imaging, was a predictor of the size of
Editor’s Choice Editor’s Comments In healthy controls and 43 patients with mild cognitive impairment, 2 pulsed ASL sequences were performed at 3T: proximal inversion with a control for off-resonance effects (PICORE) and the flow-sensitive alternating inversion recovery technique (FAIR). FAIR
Click to listen to the accompanying podcast (discussion of this article begins at 15:21) Currently the management of intracranial astrocytic tumors relies heavily on histologic grade. Although histologic grading is the current gold standard for tumor grading, it is a limited
Recently an interesting retrospective study evaluating missed neurological emergencies was published in the journal ‘Diagnosis’. Physicians from the emergency department of large tertiary care center reviewed cases involving a missed or delayed diagnosis of a neurologic emergency in which a
